News from the Votemaster

It is now official: Jean Schmidt (R) won reelection in OH-02 over Victoria Wulsin (D).
Schmidt is the freshman congresswoman who called John Murtha (R-PA), a 38-year veteran of
the Marine Corps, a coward. I had already noted her as the winner. I have also noted Deborah
Pryce as the winner in her Ohio House race.
Furthermore, John Barrow (D) has now been declared the winner in GA-12 over Max Burns (R).
This means that the election was a shutout: No incumbent Democrat running for reelection in
the Senate, House, or a governor's mansion was defeated. Every Democrat who tried to be
relected for these offices was. I don't think this has ever happened before. Even in 1994,
a few incumbent Republicans were beaten.

The races still to be decided are FL-13 , NC-08 , and TX-23 .
All are held by Republicans, so even if the Republicans win all three of
them, it will still be a shutout.

The
Wall Street Journal
has a comparison of how well the pollsters did on the Senate races.
See also my table on Nov. 12.
Briefly summarized, here are the results for the Senate:

Projected New House: 232 Democrats 200 Republicans 3 Ties

GOP pickups:
See the details of the
Senate and
House races with photos, maps, links, polls, etc.
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